Digital BW, The Print

Hi

Just to add to the things you can do with the older Mac...

I've got an old 9500 with a G3/400 card in it. It runs 10.2.6 server fine
and has an ATA133 card with 120 GB disks, USB card for a 1290 and 1160, and
a 100M Ethernet card. I built it from a collection of old machines so it was
pretty cheap. By choice, I'd have gone for a 8600/9600 case, since it is so
much easier to open up and add RAM etc...

If you were getting a machine specifically I'd look for something with a G3
in it (even a beige 266 for example) so as to be able to run 10.2.x and its
CUPS printing system. You can get OSX to boot on a lot of the older machines
with a utility like  Xpostfacto. I've collected quite a bit of info on using
older Macs (since parts of my house are filled with them :-)) and put it on
the 'maclinks' section of the site below (also includes stuff on
Macs<->PCs).

My 9500 can drive the two Epson printers with either the Epson drivers or
the Gimp print ones, and has been used to test quite a few other
printers/drivers. It even allows me to use an HP K80 as an office printer
from OS9 (appears as a colour postscript printer)

If anyone wants any more info on the above, just let me know...


bye for now   

Keith Cooper

Northlight Images
http://northlight-images.co.uk
Photography - Digital Imaging - Apple Mac Consultancy

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